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Hey champions of immigration - here is a headline for you: "Rampaging Youth Gangs Slaughter Migrants in Johannesburg" (The Australian, 20 May 2008, p. 8). Twelve murders and 50 people in hospital as the result of "xenophobic attacks" as President Thabo Mbeki described them. Mobs carrying machetes have targeted foreigners. The mobs are black South Africans and the foreigners are from Zimbabwe and local blacks blame the newcomers for crime and unemployment. While the head of the African National Congress has said "We cannot allow South Africa to be famous for xenophobia" gangs of up to 300 youths have been murdered - sometimes by burning people to death. Yet the elites do not seem to see that it is immigration into areas where people are crippled with poverty that is the real cause of this misery, not "xenophobia".